A large plastic trash can, already lined with a black bag, stood ready.

In the defensive meeting, I picked up a big plastic trash can filled with a week's tape, soda cans and snuff cans, and flung it all on the players.

From a large brown plastic trash can, she extracted half a dozen aluminum cans that someone had already flattened and that ought to have been separated for recycling.

"There's a hose in the pantry, and just off the porch near a spigot is an empty plastic trash can," I said to Marino.

After batting practice ended Friday night, McDowell stopped near the Phillies dugout, climbed inside an orange plastic trash can for a television spot, then climbed out.

But advocates maintain that what New Yorkers will do with their glass and plastic trash could wind up on the street.

Plastic drink bottles, polythene bags, cigarette lighters, tubs and containers get into rivers and are carried out to sea where all this plastic trash does not biodegrade.

Rats bore into plastic bags effortlessly and can even gnaw through thick plastic trash can lids.

A tightly covered plastic trash can will convert an enormous amount of organic kitchen waste into compost in the course of a winter.

Today, the occasional watermelon rind is overwhelmed by floatable plastic trash, which stays in the waters much longer than any natural refuse would.